Case 1:14-mj-00228-JMF Document 11 Filed 08/08/14 Page 16 of 21 -16warrant may prove time-consuming, increase the costs of the investigation, and expose the government to potential security breaches. As the government argues in its challenge, law enforcement officers are provided with considerable discretion in determining how to execute a particular search warrant. Challenge at 7. Govt.’s The Supreme Court has explained that a search warrant’s execution is “generally left to the discretion of the executing officers to determine the details of how best to proceed with the performance of a search authorized by warrant[.]” Dalia, 441 U.S. at 257. That said, although law enforcement officers are afforded wide discretion in executing search warrants, “the manner in which a warrant is executed is subject to later judicial review as to its reasonableness.” Id. at 258; see also Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, 436 U.S. 547, 559–60 (1978). Accordingly, the government will be afforded deference in deciding how to execute the search warrant, subject to later review by a court to determine whether the search complied with the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement. Finally, it should be noted that it is certainly true that searches for electronic data may present increased risks to the individual’s right to privacy as technological advances enable law enforcement to monitor and collect large volumes of electronic communications and other data. See, e.g., Schesso,

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